A Socialist Party MP is leaving parliament because she does not feel she can combine her work as a parliamentarian with being a mother.
Nine Kooiman, 37, has been an MP for nearly eight years and had her first child last year.
‘I realise that I am finding it hard to balance motherhood with being an MP and that means I cannot be the MP I would like to be,’ Kooiman said in a statement. ‘It was a difficult choice but eventually I decided to leave parliament this week.’
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